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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



AN EARNEST CALL. 



BY W. W WARDEN, 

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of the Bur ut Washington* 



A letter I received the other day contains the sentences : 

" I have just finished reading your ''Law of Art." I have never 
read a more suggestive book. For me, it is full of intellectual and 
moral nutriment. I heartily thank 3-011 for it. 

"May I not ask 3-011 to favor me with your '.'Law for All,*' "All 
for Law." an'l all your other writings, whether in book or pamphlet 
form? 1 have your ''Forensic View "; also your Life of Cliase."' 

The President, who has borne himself so apathetically toward 
my literary and my legal life, alike, would readily agree with mr, 
I am quite sure, that there lives not a better lawyer or a better 
citizen than he who wrote that note. 

To my regret, and to the public discredit, there is need of cer- 
tificates, to counteract the libels which were vomited upon the 
land by the infernal plot to ruin my biography of Chase and to 
establish for me the worst reputation that a writer ever had. 

Already, resort has been made by me to indications of criti- 
cisms in my favor, long before the days of my Life of Chase ; 
but, malting here, with reference to pure desires and high de- 
signs, a xery earnest call for greatly needed sympathy, encour- 
agement, and help, I feel again obliged to draw attention to he 
manner in which candid criticisms of my inadequately publish- 
ed Forensic View, (of which a new edition shall soon find its for- 
tune or its fate.) spoke of its character and of myself. 

I do not think that I have made too much of the elaborate 
'Critique, in which was said, almost a score of years ago : 

" Most books are reproductions of books that have gone before 

Judge Warden, late of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and one of the 
most beautiful and classical legal minds of the country, has produc- 
ed a new book.*' 

That was also an elaborate critique in which was said of the 
same unassuming emanation from my since so horribly belibi 1- 

[Copy-right, in 1880, by E. 13. Warden.] 

Published by the Ernest Institute, at ljfjf2 S St. 

Sold by James Anglim, 1424 F St., and by other booksellers. 



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cd pen : 

"•We are free to commend the book for the originality of its con- 
ception and plan, and for the ability with which it is excelled." 

Possiby, however, it was in the admirably toned criticism of 
the North American Reoietv that judgment of that volume hit 
the nail of truth most squarely on the head. That piece con- 
eludes as follows : 

"Judge Warden manifests, throughout the volume, the attri- 
bute hi a clear thinker, an independent reasoner, and a vigorous wri- 
ter. While he is guiltless of any startling heresy or innovation, his 
work is, in the best sense, original ; many of the opinions to which 
it ;;i\vs v;>ice bearing the impress ef a first coinage, whde those that 
are old are evidently new-cast and freshly stamped." 

When I composed that book, I was endeavoring, with all my 
might, though not with full effect, to be a Roman Catholic. 

My saintly, highly honored, tenderly beloved parents had, as 
they supposed, and as I long supposed, instructed me in the full 
faith of Catholics. As recent definitions indicate, they were iu 
error as to that. My thinking, after much reflection, has, quite 
recently, arrived at the conclusion, not that the belief of Catho- 
lics, in general, respecting what is often called Pontifical Infal- 
libility, and as to Church and State, has yielded to a novelty, re- 
pugnant to the faith of Catholics at the close of the last century 
and during the first quarter of the present, as I formerly con- 
sidered ; but that multitudes of pious and devoted members of 
the Church called Catholic, adopted a belief, which they suppos- 
ed to be completely Catholic, but which, in point of fact, was 
not, respecting Church and State, and as to the alleged infalli- 
bility of the Chief Bishop. This belief, held by my parents and 
by the ecclesiastic teachers of my childhood, was itself, at least 
in some degree, a novelty. It had a distinctively politico-religious 
character, which suited me, for one, right well. When my Fo- 
rensic View was written, my des ;, -e to be a constant Catholic, if 
the belief I had received from parents and ecclesiastics was to 
be considered orthodox, was deep and strong. I had not seen 
about the Church of Charities the abominations "Fathers" Quinn 
and Wood pretend to have discerned — white spirits that they 
are ! My difficulty was in the domain of faith, not in the rca'm 
of morals ; and I more and more desired, if faith and science 
could be harmonized, to be a docile and a settled Catholic. I 
made, as I make now, no hobby of originality and none of inde- 
pendence. All that was well settled, whether in Theology or 



An Earnest Cull. 8 

in Nomology, I wished to see stand firm. My wish in that re- 
spect remains unaltered. I have no desire to see v/ell setfed 
things disturbed, in thought or in act. 

This is to be more fully indicated in the yet unfinished book 
that is about to be referred to. 

Ei'rtest and the Flwj lie ^Followed is the title of a little book 
which I commenced to write in 18G3. To finish it and send it 
through the press, at once, appears to me a duty, public as well 
as private ; and the duty shall not be neglected. 

Chase had just seen extracts from that book when he address- 
ed to me the written words, which 1 so love to quote : 

"The loss of your noble son moves myprofoundest sympathies, and 
it is fit that just such a monument as your book will make for him, 
should be constructed by your hand. Is it the will of God that the 
precious blood poured out in Lids terrible struggle shall nourish the 
vine which he planted in America to fresher, nobler growth? I rever- 
ently hope so. The effects of the fiery trial to your mind, and other 
.spirits of like reach and culture, confirm the hope." 

The President apparently delights to honor libellers who, ly- 
ingly, in order to destroy my Life of Chase, pretended to deny 
to me both reach and culture. He may find that he has cared too 
much for their big presses, and too little for my little press. 

However that may be, perhaps there was a friendly partiality 
in the critique, which, noticing my Life of Chase, thus judged 
and prophesied : 

"Judge Warden is a man of marked ability. . .With rare and most 
interesting conversational powers, he lias written as be talks; with a 
mind well stored with learning and knowledge, he has given us a 
work that will stand the test of time." 

That judgment was, however, quite as critically toned as this : 

'•Judge Warden... possesses neither moral discrimination nor liter- 
ary taste." 

It was not bully Halstead who said that. It was another lit- 
erary miscreant and ruffian — one whose name is not yet known 
to me. I promise to immortalise it with the names of Halstead, 
Beid, and others, if it ever shall become known to me. Mean- 
time, I mention that the just-quoted bare-faced libel was actual- 
ly presented, as and for a criticism, to the too many readers of 
Harper s rich yet poor New Monthly Magazine. 

The conduct of my publishers was such, that I felt bound to 
give them written notice, on or about the ninth of July, 1874, 
that the shallows which their manager mistook for depths did 



An Earnest Call. 4 

not deceive me iti the least — that I comprehended that if my 
hook was not sold, / was. After that, of course, it would have 
been, in my condition, worse than reckless to attempt to litigate 
with rich and influential people of the Press. The Bennetts, 
lells, and llalsteads, went unwhipt of legal justice, for the time. 
1 have not done with them, however. "Wait a little longer, boys !" 

Would I, tLen, have revenge? Here let me be correctly un- 
derstood. I have to wish for vengeance. None at at all. 

I call attention to these carefully considered words of mine : 

I have no right to pardon where forgiveness is not asked and re- 
paration and atonement are not undertaken. I am always more than 
ready to forgive wh re pardon would not be a crime. I seek not 
'peace at any price,' hut, on this last day of the year, I do most ar- 
dently desire to be as much as possible at guiltless, not dishonorable 
peace. 

The second number of Frrmi Time to Time announced a book of 
m ne, entitled Letttrs to a Senator. The book, except the index, had 
gone through the Press, when, chiefly influenced by apprehension, 
tiiat the Senator addressed and another person might conceive the 
spi/it of the book to be less kindly than it was, in truth, designed to 
be, I cancelled the whole book, resolving to rewrite it at my leisure. 
Happily, I can, this day, remember very many other indications that 
gool will and not maievolence is cultivated in my variously stricken 
life. A sorrow such as that which I can never cease to feel for Er- 
nest's death, all-glorious as it was, disposes him who mourns to free 
his heart as much as possible from personal hostility of all descrip- 
tions. 

Nothing could be clearer to my mind and heart than that ray sor- 
rowing for Ernest tends to widen, deepen, and exalt my feeling for 
the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. There can be nothing in the 
least like malice in such mourning. 

Having copied the foregoing words, a Circular of mine pro- 
cee Is as follows : 

I am sure that I have not the slightest disposition to attack unjust- 
ifiably. Though I may often err, I shall not err maliciously. 

But I shall freely criticize where criticism seems to be entirely 
proper. Criticism is among the most important objec;s of my mag- 
azine. 

The critic'sm I most willingly get up, attacks abusive critics. This 
is partly but by no means wholly due to some of my experiences. 

lu my book on Man and Law, 1 made no plea of ignorance. I did, 
however, most unwisely, use such words as these : 

'* I enter on this task without the slightest pretention to learning, 
as learning is commonly estimated." 

A cutting and slashing criticaster, scribbling for the London 
Athenceum, lyingly pretended not to understand the indications Of 



those words and others, immediately connected with them. Thp mis- 
er an< pret< tided, also, not to understan 1 what was intended by a 

| 3 forensic. I a th • basi^.; <he simple //. .-thus pln<- 

ly at variance with logic and with decency. 

There was, at that^time, and there stiilj'emainp, connected with 

the Press, at Cincinnati, a practised libeller, who was, as he is nov , 
the ernelest and meanest of my enemies. Of course, he seized nj < n 
the opportunity afforded him by the cockney criticaster, though he 

must have known that what b :s since been called the genera! voice 
of the reviewers was decidedly in favor of the book which, animated 
mainly by a worse than murderous malevol :nce toward the author, 
he desired to see disgracefully destroyed. That fact he has ever since 
concealed as much as possible from the perusers of his brutally eon- 
ducted but, in general, quite newsy -V t. 

There was another mean and cruel libeller of my lock on Man 
and Law. lie also is to be a long if not a well-remembei'ed person. 

Conway, who is now Halstead's London correspondent, was then 
editing, at Cincinnati, a pretentious mag izine. He put into it a pre- 
tended criticism, lvally a low-thing libel, winch affi Cted to regard as 
worthy only of contempt the book of which it spoke. How natural 
it is for him and Halstead to cooperate! 

Itakc no pleasure in remembering how basely and how cruelly 
Marat Halstead, IMoneure Daniel Conway, and that criticaster of the 
London Athenceum, wrote about a well-intended book of mine. But 
what I have just said appears to me but part of the just punishment 
the libellers just spoken-of have brought upon themselves. 

They were the only persons who pn tended to regard the hook as 
not entitled to respect ; and two of them had manifested malice to- 
the author. 

1 have helped to make the name of Murat Halstead rather wide- 
ly known. He shall be known to after times as well as he is known 
. to these. He seems to me a thoroughly bad man. I thought of him, 
as I reread this almost savage language of our generally mild Irvine;: 

"Griffiths tried to exonerate himself"" by declaring that the 

criticism was written by a person in his employ; but we see no dif- 
ference in atrocity between him who wields the knife and him who 
hires the cut-throat. It may be well, however, in passing, to bestow 
our mite of notoriety upon the miscreant who launched the slander." 

That I have been absolutely forced to make immortal the peculiar 
notoriety of Halstead, gives me no delight. The literary cut-throat 
tried to murder me outright, in authorship, when he began the open 
war on my biography of Chase before it was completed, even in the 
manuscript. As has been indicated, that was not his first attempt to 
cut my literary throat. At times, I must confess, I have been sorely 
tempted to take all the risk of trying to snuff-out the light of what, in 
my note of March 15, 1872, I called his "worthless life. "....But now 
I can discern no hatred in my heart. It is not hatred that is moving 
me to say the things that I am saying here of a determined literary 
cut-throat. 



G An Eurncsl Call. 

<i nia!. g ntle, amiable Irving added to already quoted words t':e 
following: 

•• He des we? it by a long course of dastardly and ver.omons at- 
tack-;, not merely upon Goldsmith, but upon most of ti;e successful 
authors of the day. His name was Konrick." 

Does the punishment inflicted by that language go too far? I can 
not think it does; nor can I think the punishment I here endeavor to 
i ifliet on Murat Halstead is, in any sense, unmerited. I know at 
least that I have no self-conscious wish to wrong the man. His mal- 
ic toward me Ins had no limits. 

He and his ab ttors, high and low. shall be forgiven when they are 
e .titled to forgiveness, not at all before. Too probably, alas! this 
means that they are never to be pardoned. 

Those expressions are, in full, adopted here ; and it is with a 
studied emphasis that I repeat this language, put by me, almost 
a year ago, into the magazine, From Time to Time : 

"If venjeance wsra the object of this uiderta'cing, it would 
1 ave no such formidableness as it has on account of its determined 
devotion to duty. But I pardon none of the conspirators against my 
Life of Chase, against my reputation as a writer, and agaiust my 
standing as a man. Not one of them has even asked to be forgiven. 
Fuli live years and more have lengthened time since most of the con- 
spirators of whom I speak, began their hellish work against my al- 
ready fearfully tried life. Xot one of them has manifested sorrow. 
Now, by God ! — the oath is not profane — it is a holy and a whole- 
some oath ! — by God, not one of those conspirators will I for- 
give, till he or she shall manifest profound contrition, shall en- 
deavor to make full reparation, and shall publicly and humbly 
ask for my forgiveness." 

Vevy hirl it was t) bi'ing myself to ti'o that oath, and very 
hard it is to keep it, as to certain persons ; but it shall be kept. 
No false compassion, and no high-flown gallantry, shall be al- 
lowed to make me false to that engagement. 

Help! Help! Help! My views and sentiments may not 
be always pleasing ; they are always carefully considered and 
entirely genuine : 1 hope that even where they are, in whole or 
in part, decidedly rejected, the assistance that I call for, wheth- 
er in or out of my Profession, will not be denied. I need it 
quickly. Let it come at once. It shall be paid for, thoroughly, 
in matter absolutely free from all malevolence. 

I have been charged with having libelled both the living and 
the dead. 

I never yet have been, and I am sure that I shall never be, a 
libeller. Not one malicious criticism have I sent to press. I 



An Earnest Cull. 7 

never have i\ any way abased the so-called privileges of the 
Press. 1 luve and p;ize them quite too much to use t! e n unbe- 
comingly. 

I sh ill eadjavor to justify the judgment of the No. th A fieri- 
c in Review, that I reveal "the attributes of a clear thinker, an 
independent reasonsr, and a vigorous writer." I»nt I do not 
claim the right to say just what it pleases me to say of any one. 

I once supj osed that, unintentionally, my biography of Chase 
had wronged a public character, of whom the hero of the book 
had spoken very highly. I communicated to the person suppos- 
ed to be wronged my supposition and my purpose to correct the 
wrong, in the next edition of the book, lie answered me. in 
writing, very properly, and seemed to be much gratified. But 
he has since bahaved in such a manner as to make me question 
whether he was wronged at all in the biography. 

However this may turn out, so much is certain, that there is 
in what I have originally written for that book, so recklessly ac- 
cused of overflowing malice, not one syllable of real malice. 

The pretence that it is libellous ol Chase himself is hideous- 
ly false. The constant aim of the whole book is to set forth the 
history and character of Chase precisely as they were. My 
opinion now is, that it magnifies his virtues and minifies his vices. 

But I wait for Hamlin's Life of Chase. May it have many 
readers and much fairly critical attention ! 

Have I libelled the Chief Magistrate? 1 certainly have not 
desired to libel him ; bu* - , [o.sibly, 1 may have unintentionally 
somewhat injured him. 

In Dunn uitd Wann appear the sentences : 

"That I have no desire to wrong the President has been abund- 
antly made manifest. True, when I think of inferences which 
have been freely drawn (even to the prejudice of my purely j)ro- 
fessionul standing, where I am comparatively little known) from 
his omicial conduct toward me, I find my indignation quite in 
danger of becoming uttter scorn. But lean still remember the 
great truth, that ", Patience is the very soul of Peace.'' Can J, 
who have endured so much already, not endure a little more':* 
Have I not debts to pay, and even higher obligations to dis- 
charge? I must, if possible, have perfect patience, joined to 
perfect courage, at this time. I must not overlook the po;s.- 
bility, that the Chief Magistrate may yet appreciate his opportu- 
nit.as and duty to assist and forward my endeavors to do good." 



6 An Earnest Call 

In the same magazine is said : 

"I utterly despise the judgments of the Halsteads and other 
libellers ; and if the President agrees with them in jud D i ig me, 
so much the worse for him. I do not think he does, however. 
As his damaging demeanor toward me has given me the clear- 
est right to render very public, it was with these words that he 
c nnmended me to that eminently fraternal legal brother of mine, 
the Attorney General of the United States : 

' "This will introduce my friend, Judge R. P>. Warden. . . .'.He 
is a lawyer of large learning, experience, and ability. His in- 
tegrity, fidelity to duty, and industry, are of the best and highest 
order.' 

"That is not, by any means, the highest praise I have receiv- 
ed ; but it will serve my present purposes. If I am such a man 
is it describes ; if I have industry, fidelity to duty, and integrity, 
of the best and highest order, in association with large legal 
learning, experience, and ability ; why has the President so borne 
himself toward my smitten, struggling, and not unbecomingly 
aspiring life, as rather to increase its well-nigh frightful difficult- 
ies than to lessen them? Has he not done considerable damage 
to important public interests in damaging my private interests? 

"I have no doubt that, but for his extremely egoistic, little- 
hearted Cabinet, he would have differently borne himself toward 
my desire and effort to do public good ; but what of that? Is 
Iw not President? Or have we half-a-dozen Presidents, of whom 
the nominally greatest is, in fact, the least assertive of himself?" 

That is, at least not libellously meant. My sense of public 
duty has, on more than one occasion, led me to say, publicly, 
that, in my judgment, there is in the President an unaffected 
but excessive modesty, most damagingly out of place in his high 
oifice, and nowhere commendable. 1 must adhere to that. 

The conduct of the President toward me has been very damag- 
ing to me and far from creditable to himself. This is plain talk, 
but it appears to me quite plainly called for ; and the President 
must know that, in the circumstances, it can hardly be my wish 
to have a row with him. My only son, whose interests are far 
more precious to me than my own, is trying to obtain a clerical 
position, and, although 1 would ask nothing for myself, I have 
desired the President to do his best in favor of my son, without 
regard to my own merits or demerits. My desire is not to quar- 
rel with the President. 



An Earnest Cull. !) 

The cl lest brother of the son just s; oken of, laid down L!s 
Lie ii battle fjr the Law and Order or the Land. OJbial h m- 
orable mention deplored his loss as that of "a brave, intelligen'", 
and faithful soldier.*' Thi3 is he, in memory of wnom is nam- 
ed the Institute that publishes this book. Hi 3 death struck very 
heavily the worldly welfare oi' his family. The only bother 
now surviving the early-fated Ernest was then very youag. For 
him, then, notwithstanding all that has bce.i sai 1 by me about 
the President an 1 members of the (Jabi let, I feel well warrant- 
ed in asking a position, not 0.1 my account, bu.0.1 his own. ilj 
is not answerable for my utterances. They ought not to be al- 
lowed to cast a shadow on his life, so youag and so exception- 
ally capable. Yet not for his or any otner interests can I aban- 
don, or apologise for, criticism which appears to 1113 required ly 
due observance of tb.3 vow to which attention is about to be di- 
rected. 

An already-quoted circular of mine contains the paragraphs : 

I am endeavoring to join with rational devotion to the practice of 
the Law a rational pe.formaiice of the vow, referred to in tiiesj re- 
cent words of mine : 

" All I have elsewhere said about the President an I 
some of his advisers I consider fully Justifiable. Wnile tuis eonvic- 
tiou stands, 1 can not oiler either an apology or a modilicati. u. 1 
can not forget the vow 1 made with Ernest, as relate! in the opening 
number of n'rom Time to Time. That vow, I grant, was a pronoun- 
cedly uncustomary thing; but as uncustomary were the characters of 
the vowers, and not less excepti nal were their conditions and rela- 
tions. Neverwas avow more rational and natural. It must be kept."' 

The vow referred to binds me to contribute all 1 can towaru im- 
provement of the public service, and to work, ..ccordng to ability 
and opportunity, for the advancement of Nomology. 

homology at large is learning of a legal cast, ii comprehends u t 
only legal principles but legal facts. 

A part of the p rformance of that vow, was the foundation of the 
Ernest Institute, devoted mainly to "Nomology. 

There never was an Institute of better origin or of superior ends. 
There never was an Institute more practical m character and ami. 

Yet it is largely due to sorrow, and is partly monumental. 

"Miscreants ana persons whom 1 deem 1101 even miscreantical 1 ave 
damaged me, in my profession and beyond its range, by intimat.ng, 
that 1 have allowed niysonow for the loss of ErnesL Warden to make 
my sentiments too dark. The intimation is entirely false. It is as 
inexcusable as false. 

Whatever may be thought of the opinion just expressed, assured- 
ly, no prejudice, against tue fo. aider of the Jiirnest institute, sl.oind 



iO Ait Earnest Call. 

be allow, d to hurt its publications, or to damageany of i:s other ef- 
forts to do good. 

I very much regret the faultine s of all my nomologic contributions, 
and I shall endeavor to do greatly better in the future; but no vveil- 
iuformed and decent person will deny that 1 have had great diilicuh- 
( s to contend with. Let me be justly judged. I ask no more. 

The vow referred to in that language, may appear to some 
men mad, to others just ridiculous. To me it seems among the 
holiest, the highest, ami the wisest things which have proceed- 
ed from my general desire and effort to be well devoted to the 
Good, the True, and the Beautiful. I will endeavor to be fully 
faithful to it during the remainder of my days. 

This does not mean that my design is to pay but slight atten- 
tion to the practice of the Law. 1 must not give to anything 
beyond the Law an instant of the time that properly belongs to 
legal business or to legal study. I have very «reat pecuniary 
needs, particularly for discharging debts ; and I must not fail to 
make the practice of the Law as profitable as 1 honorably can. 
But as I give, and wish to give, and mean to give, no time to 
that which is absurdly called Societ}', I can, without neglecting 
anything, devote no slight attention to the almost always recre- 
ative work which I devote to literature. 

The suffering through which t have already passed, was nev- 
er more than equalled, I am sure. The sacrifices I have made 
in order to content my conscience, my affections, or my self-re- 
spect, have been both great and heavy. Such a man as I have 
shown myself to be, is not to be much influenced b} 7 any form of 
ridicule. The ridicule can make me surfer, but it can not drive 
me back, or halt me much, or make me turn aside. I have con- 
siderable resoluteness when attempts are foully made to influ- 
ence my action in the wrong direction. 

There has just been issued the first number of a German-Eng- 
lish magazine, entitled Dunn und Wann. There 1 have called 
attention to these eminently pithy words of Goethe : 

„Man sagt : eitles Eigenlob stinket ; das mag scin : was aber 
fremder und ungerechter Tadcl fiir einen Geruch habe, dafur 
hat das Publikum keine Nase." 

I am charged with too much talk about myself; but even the 
malignant and audacious llalstead has not dared to charge me 
with self-praise. Perhaps, my self-defense has been, and is, ex- 
cessive : but who but a Halstead will find fault with me, on that 
account, all things considered? 



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Help! Help! Help! 

Help me, O all ye generous and noble souls, to whom t'..i s eai - 
nest call shall make its way. 1 1 gain again the name and fame I 
had, when Salmon Portland Chase deliberately charged me with 
the high and weighty trust, for fearlessly and faithfully perform- 
ing which, according to ability and opportunity, I have been 
held up to scorn, not only in this country but in foreign lands ! 
I was not born to bear, for long, the burden of sueh ignominy. 

Help! Help! Help! 

I earnestly anl pressingly demand that ju.;tije — simple jus- 
tice — be accorded to my Life of Chase. 

Stupidity or perfidy has made the publishers of that devoted 
book its most injurious foes. The praise that it received was 
wholly genuine, the Upraise wholly counterfeit ; and this the 
publishers must have quit? clearly seen. They might, with ease, 
have turned into most valuable advertisements all the forgeries 
of criticism, which pretended to condemn the book. Had they, 
remembering that I had not applied to them — that they had ap- 
plied to me to trust them with the publication of the book — 
performed for it but what a sense of honor should have ordered 
them to do,/o>" their own sake, my royalty in the hock would long- 
ago have paid the debts which sometimes almost break me ab- 
solutely down ; would have effected a complete provision for my 
family ; and would have endowed the Ernest Institute according 
to its merits and my own desires. The book, aside from the ex- 
ceedingly small part that learn the stamp of my originality, is 
one of the most variously interesting, valuable works that have 
assumed a printed shape. 

This judgment is not mine alone. There is in it no vanity 
whatever. The amount of it is recognition of the interest and 
importance of matter which my pen has merely- copied and ar- 
ranged. lhe question whether what my pen has put into the 
book in the way of original composition, makes the volume, on 
the whole, repugnant, still remains. 

The book has been impartially as well as partially charac- 
terised as eminently readable throughout. There seems to 
be gcod reason for accepting this opinion.* 

* I have elsewhere said, and I can well repeat, that I demand what- 
ever is my due. I need it all, and I will have it, if I can, from hi.qh and 
low, from friend and foe. If my endeavors are to fail, they shall go 
down with Hying' colors. I am not afraid. My objects and my mo- 
tives make me not incautior.s, but they also make mc fear ess. 



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An Earnest Call 



I expect no lasting peace on earth. But, even if my faith in 
God and in a life to come — O precious faith ! how my affections 
cleave to thee ! — had passed away, with my adherence to the 
oldest Christian Church, and so with my ability to see a Kevela- 
tion in the Bible, I would still feel bound, by principle, to bat- 
tle, battle, battle on, with all my main and might, for what I 
deem the Bight. 

Have not I shown good claim to large, and generous, and 
undelayed assistance? 

Help ! Help ! Help ! 




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